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{{Short description|Style of penmanship}} {{For multi|the Chinese cursive handwriting in calligraphy|Cursive script (East Asia)|the style of typeface|Italic type|the rock band|Cursive (band)}} {{Use British English|date=March 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} [[File:Spencerian example.jpg|thumb|Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as [[Spencerian script]], from 1884]] '''Cursive''' (also known as '''joined-up writing'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Do we need to teach children joined-up handwriting? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41927258 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=BBC News |date=11 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Russell |first1=Helen |title=Signing off: Finnish schools phase out handwriting classes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/finnish-schools-phase-out-handwriting-classes-keyboard-skills-finland |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=31 July 2015}}</ref>) is any style of [[penmanship]] in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to [[block letters]]. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal documents as well as in private communication. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "[[italic script|italic]]", or "connected". The cursive method is used with many alphabets due to infrequent pen lifting which allows increased writing speed. However, more elaborate or ornamental calligraphic styles of writing can be slower to reproduce. In some alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke.
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